How to set up a PVC cage (AP T8) With Pictures!

[BPGuy]

It is cleaner, but not necessary, to have AP install the RHPs. In addition to the basic install, which looks quite easy, they router channels for the power cords. This looks alot cleaner. Now, if you have 78 to 82 temps in that room, you are not going to be running squat for heat, if the fluorescents are on. The other day we had a crazy heat spell and I came home to a screaming Herpstat alarm, set to 86. Ambient room temp was 82 and the fluorescents cooked up the cage to 86. Temp gradient is easy to maintain...unless your room temp equals your ideal ambient or cool side temp. Then any heat you throw at the hot side erases the gradient. Not a big deal, but gotta watch out for the light usage when the room is warm.

I wonder whether Animal Plastics would router channels for RHP power cords when I order the T8 so that if I end up needing the RHPs next winter, I could add the RHPs myself and still end up with the same clean look as though AP had done the install.